Are you having trouble aligning your global IT services with
the corporate, partner and client business objectives?

Are there silos in your organization - between your
architects, development and infrastructure teams inhibiting transformation?

Is software development marching to a single business beat
while your infrastructure team tries to catch up – or just the opposite?

Is it tough to get clarity on the complexity of your
enterprise and even more difficult to manage – especially those parts that are
outsourced?

In today’s world, economic forces and accelerating change are driving the
need for flexibility, re-use and geographically distributed development --- and
business flexibility requires IT flexibility but IT flexibility is very complex,
difficult and expensive, right?

Well, not necessarily…

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a set of principles and methodologies
for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services.
These services are well-defined business functionalities that are built as software
components that are reusable, as needed, for different purposes. They become repeatable business tasks. Business
processes are a series of services ‘assembled’ together like building blocks.

But what about deploying an application – post-development, to make an
application operational?

Learn more about model-driven deployment… The following webcast explores how IBM
Rational solutions for the Financial Services Sector uses a model-driven
approach to provide end-to-end traceability of business needs to software
implementation and automation design can bring clarity, reduce costs and
improve productivity in design, development and operations.